By EDWIN TANJI, City Editor
POSTED: June 10, 2008 S
As was predicted two weeks earlier, the price of a gallon of regular gas on Lanai topped $5 over the weekend — hitting drivers’ pocketbooks at $5.119.
But there is little Lanai residents can do beyond accept the inevitable.
“It hurts,” said Lanai High & Elementary School Principal Pierce Myers. “Everything hurts. It’s not just for gas. Electricity is going up. Everything that comes on the barge is going up.”
Myers may be hurting even more since the state Department of Education instituted a program this year that penalizes schools whose electricity bills rise beyond a three-year average.
He didn’t expect the DOE program to consider the effects of soaring fuel bills in a small, isolated community.
Unlike Myers, who doesn’t have anyone to pass on the costs to...
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